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Making SOA real with WebSphere, Episode 2: Business process management for IT

Informative interviews with IBM experts in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation

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Sandy Carter (scarter@us.ibm.com), Vice President of IBM's SOA and WebSphere strategy, IBM 
Beth Smith (bethts@us.ibm.com), Vice President, WebSphere Solutions and Tooling, IBM 
Christopher Vignola (cvignola@us.ibm.com), WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS Architect, IBM 
Andrea Greggo (agreggo@us.ibm.com), WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS Marketing Manager, IBM 

03 May 2006

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Second in the 2006 WebSphere® technical podcast series on developerWorks, this 29-minute podcast covers how IBM® products can help you implement true "closed-loop" business process management. And, we continue our discussion on improving your resource utilization with WebSphere Extended Deployment – this time focusing on its deployment on the mainframe.

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Pat Flanders introduces a previously recorded discussion between two IBM executives. Hear how IBM products can help you implement true closed-loop business process management.

  • Entering from a process-centric view with business process management, innovative business models that you can deploy quickly with flexibility and optimize processes.
  • Hear about the tools that can help you build composite applications and generate BPEL- facilitating you and your management to evaluate the processing power between your business transactions.

And on this week’s "Did you say Mainframe?!" segment, Pat Flanders interviews Andrea Greggo and Christopher Vignola, WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS® marketing manager and architect, respectively.

  • Learn how WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS delivers function in four key areas: hetereogeneous support for application workloads and application servers, increased intelligence for application environments, manageability, and performance. So let’s address these functions one at a time.
  • Hear future plans to extend support on WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS for other WebSphere platform products other than WebSphere Application Server to enhance and facilitate your SOA deployment and integration.


Special offer: Take advantage of the the listener-only discount offer from IBM press books. Receive 40 percent off the list price of newly published SOA and WebSphere books listed by retrieving the coupon code found with the audio of each podcast.


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Sandy Carter vice president of IBM's SOA and WebSphere strategy is a graduate of Duke University with a B.S. in Computer Science and Math and an M.B.A from Harvard University. Her professional associations include Member and Best Speaker Award, the Marketing Focus Advisory Council; Board Member of the Grace Hopper Industry Advisory Committee; and membership in Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Inner Circle. She recently won an Award from AIT United Nations for helping developing countries, is an active member of the Women in Technology Group, and the Lead IBM Partnership Executive at Duke University.


Beth Smith is the vice president, WebSphere Solutions and Tooling. Beth was previously Vice President Solutions Development. She was also Vice President, Business Innovation and Optimization (BIO), where she led IBM's business process performance management initiatives as part of IBM's broader on Demand strategy. Prior, she was director, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions Development, where she was responsible for bringing new technology solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare provider and payer markets. During her career, Beth has also held a variety of management and technical roles across IBM’s Software Group. Beth joined IBM in 1987 after graduating from North Carolina State University with a BS in Computer Science. In 2000, Beth received the Tribute to Women in Industry award from the YWCA of Santa Clara Valley.


Christopher Vignola is an architect with the WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS team in IBM Poughkeepsie, New York.


Andrea Greggo is a marketing manager with the WebSphere Extended Deployment for z team in IBM Pougkeepsie, New York.




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Making SOA real with WebSphere, Episode 2